Triple
T21568808
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | British Rail Provincial sector |
E532230
|
entity |
| Predicate | predecessor |
P97
|
FINISHED |
| Object | British Rail Regions system |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 steps)
Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.
NER
Named-entity recognition
gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: British Rail Regions system | Statement: [British Rail Provincial sector, predecessor, British Rail Regions system]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Rail Regions system Context triple: [British Rail Provincial sector, predecessor, British Rail Regions system]
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A.
British Railways regions
chosen
British Railways regions were the post-nationalisation administrative divisions of Britain's state-owned railway system, responsible for managing operations, infrastructure, and rolling stock across their respective geographic areas.
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B.
British railway network
The British railway network is the nationwide system of interconnected passenger and freight rail lines, stations, and services that spans the United Kingdom.
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C.
National Rail zoneless system
The National Rail zoneless system is the nationwide fare structure used across most of Britain’s mainline rail network, where ticket prices are calculated by point-to-point distance rather than by travel zones.
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D.
British Rail Provincial sector
The British Rail Provincial sector was the division of British Rail responsible for operating most non-intercity and rural passenger train services across the United Kingdom before sectorisation reforms led to its rebranding as Regional Railways.
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E.
British Rail
British Rail was the state-owned company that operated most of the railway services in Great Britain from the late 1940s until the privatization of the rail network in the 1990s.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 batches)
The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.
| Step | Stage | Batch ID | Status | When |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| creating | Elicitation | batch_69e0c460db088190828c64206a450273 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69eee9cad95c8190ab165ced6f242302 |
completed | April 27, 2026, 4:44 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:30 p.m.